New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-25
THE TALK of THE DAY.

Mr.. James Russell Lowell says that he doesn't like
reporters and yet 1t as reporter OF the quah'
sayings OF Hosea BELOW that he won national fane'
squclchng Him.-Polito Mashor lin railway train
a. prefty Girl-So but am.-Omaha World
"Tbo Springfield Union" wants to know why Sec
rotary Whitney doesn't introduce the centreboard In
tho United States Navy. The English seem to be
mora afraid of the centrcboard than Of our big guns
and torpcdoes.
81 may not be so eloquent as some Of them"
said the Senator from Middlefork "but when make
speech nobody is able to answer It," g.,
Every likely" replied the honorable Senator from
Hampsex. did you ever hear OF an echo W ho'n
Tho Senator from Mddlcfors is still wondering
what tho honorable senator on the left was CRYING
at.-(Boston Transcript.
ON tho Avenue-Buslness man-Just look at thae
dudo across tho street really believe he is tight"
Philosophical Friend-well. there are compensatohs
In all things: his trousers arc loose
Tho following has often been told "a joke, but
IL really happened In q downtown cigar storc .ho
othor day. A gentleman whom we VIII can o"'i'n
WAS buying q tencent cigar when soouy az
ouaintanco who may DO called Brown came In anu
was invited by Smith to have cigar. He OF course
oo.red tho cigar and smith laid down twenty cents
in payment At this point Brown got In his hne
work Turning to tho dealer he asked II the cigars
inst bought woro not sold at the rate OF three ior
ouarter On the dealer replying that they were' DC
ashod out nickel and laying 1t on the counter re-
marked: "wen, then. I'll take tho third cigar Ii
IL :. all tho same to you" And he did. to the I'M
speahablo establishment Of Smith and the dealer
Mrs Uomcspun declined to purchase French chops
Of her butcher this morning. She considered it her
duty sho said, TO patronze homo Industries hmeii-
can chops were good enough for her-tBoston Tran
script.
There are two Knights OF the Iron Cross now Nv
ing in Berlin who took part in tho war or LIBERIA
ton against Napoleon Bonaparte. One Is the EN-
pcror The other Ia an ex-Iax COLLECTOR hameo
Friedrich wnlle joval old fellow. now in his nine
| ~ fifth year Martin Pindor. who died early In
March, was another veteran of tho anti Napoleonic
wora He claimed to be one hundred and three
years old few days before his death he was act
ing as a railway servant.
It was a Boston woman who refused to buy some
cured hams the other day on the ground that
she never bought anything that had been diseased
"For YOU know" she said. shat even II 1t has been
cured some hidden germs Of disease may stu Anser
In It,"
| Tho following conversation by telephone, 1t Is
said. has recently taken place between the Presi'
dent and Miss Democracy with reference to the cam
paign Of 1885,
| "Your candidate I cannot be-"
"Nobody aXed you, sir, said she."
| Tho Michigan Legislature has worked itself up on
| tho English sparrow question, and has put price
OF one cent on tho head Of every English sparrow
|
uro is pretty alert body OF mon, but they won't
succeed in downing the English sparrow
The sugar trade Of Batavia has taken great strides
sinoo $780, the production increasing year after year
crop of 1884 the largest over KNOWN and thai
of tho present year it is expected will be fully up te
1t.
| The old lady who read that there a great deal
| OF "gaseOus beli" in Europe wasn't SO very far
wrong after oil.
He Escaped-As the act-drop fell Mrs. Galatne
fixed her eyes 1t and studied 1t curiously.
"You seem to be enjoying the drop" remarked
her husband.
| 81 ann
"wcll, think III enjoy one myself" And h,
| stole softly out tTid Bite.
A female Spanish bull-fghter named "Glora- Gloria
Is soon TO mako her debut In Mexico. She will fgh
for something substantial however, than gloria
gloria.
"what makes Jones so noar-sighted htely7 HI
don't seem to know fellow when he meets him."
"His father has just died"
"Wcll, never thought grief for the governor wonlt
affect his eyesight"
cit DON'T But he's como in for oil the GOVERNOR
money."-To Topics.